[ixpmanager] BIRD 3 Support

[Richard Laager]

On 2025-10-23 18:43, Barry O'Donovan (INEX) wrote:
> 
> On 23/10/2025 23:46:02, "Richard Laager via ixpmanager" 
> <ixpmanager at inex.ie <mailto:ixpmanager at inex.ie>> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-10-23 17:01, Nick Hilliard via ixpmanager wrote:
>>> What version of bird2 are you running?
>> 2.0.8
> 
> That’s pretty out of date at this point, since it was released in 2021.

That's what shipped on Ubuntu 22.04.

> At INEX, we’re running 2.17.2 with no issues,

2.17.2 must be git then, as AFAICT, 2.17.1 is still the latest release.

> but we have updated the 
> template slightly - see the main branch:
> 
> https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/tree/main/resources/views/api/v4/ 
> router/server/bird2-2025 <https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/tree/main/ 
> resources/views/api/v4/router/server/bird2-2025>
> 
> The standard Bird2 templates should work fine, but there’ll be some 
> complaints in the logs due to configuration language improvements in 
> newer versions.

Thanks!

I've built 2.17.1 on Ubuntu 22.04. I'll give that a try, tentatively 
tomorrow, on one of our route servers.

If it's just going to be log messages, I'll stick to the existing 
templates. But if there are more issues, I'll refer to the bird2-2025 
templates. I diffed the two directories and the changes look pretty 
straightforward.

> We’ll cut a new release during November to make these official.

Hopefully you can address this at the same time:
https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/pull/852

-- 
Richard